Percy

This Sunday comic strip follows Percy, a mechanical boy whose inventor father must retrieve him from mischief. The narrative moves through nine panels with sequential action: Percy's father explains the mechanism, Percy causes chaos, and the inventor pursues his wayward creation across the landscape. The strip employs the standard visual grammar of early newspaper comics—panel borders, speech balloons, and exaggerated expressions—while mixing mechanical humor with slapstick chase sequences. Percy represents a popular turn-of-the-century theme: machines and automation as sources of comedy. Published in the Sunday newspaper pages that gave birth to comic strips, this work demonstrates how artists adapted theatrical timing and vaudeville gags to the sequential panel format, establishing conventions that would define the medium.